Visual Dolphin Software
Mckenzie Witting
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The absorption maxima of both rod and cone visual pigments of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) are blue-shifted relative to those of terrestrial mammals. A comparison of the sequence of the dolphin rod photopigment gene with that of the bovine rod suggests that, fo the 28 nonidentical amino acids, three amino acid substitutions at positions 83, 292, and 299 in the dolphin rod pigment are responsible for the 10 nm blue shift in absorption maxima. A similar comparison of the dolphin long-wavelength sensitive (LWS) cone photopigment gene with those of the human LWS cones suggests that a single substitution at position 292 (using the convention of rhodopsin numbering) in the dolphin LWS cone pigment results in a blue shift in absorption maxima. A mutagenesis study reveals that the combination of the three dolphin specific substitutions in the bovine rod pigment (83D to 83N, 292A to 292S, and 299A to 299S) causes a blue shift from the wild-type lambdamax of 499 nm to 389 nm. The single substitution in the dolphin LWS cone pigment (292S to 292A) causes a red shift from the wild-type lambdamax of 524 nm to 552 nm. The interactions of the three amino acids identified in the rod pigment with the chromophore may be a general mechanism for blue shifting in rod visual pigments. Furthermore, the single substitution in the dolphin LWS opsin gene is a novel mechanism of wavelength modulation in mammalian LWS pigments.
The authors are very grateful to the staff of the dolphinarium at the Nrnberg Zoo for their continuous help during experimental sessions and to the director of the Nrnberg Zoo, Peter Mhling, for his approval of the conduct of the study. Our thanks also go to Martin Bye for assistance in running Experiment 2 and to Jrg Pekarsky for designing Figures 1 and 3.
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Communication in bottlenose dolphins appears to be extensive and complex. A dolphin maintains an intricate social network that includes a few close associates (such as mothers and calves or pair-bonded males), plus more casual relationships with others who come and go within a larger group. Dolphins hunt together to find food. Pods of dolphins coordinate their movements to herd prey, and then take turns swimming into the middle of the assembled fish to eat. There is still much to learn about how dolphins communicate though a number of generalities have emerged from research.
Dolphins do not always respond immediately to another dolphin whistling. Sometimes, many dolphins in the group whistle at once, repeating their signature whistles over and over. In this case, the whistling may help the dolphins keep track of each other.
Bottlenose dolphins also seem to whistle while foraging on various prey items (Acevedo-Guiterrez 2004). Scientists believe that as a group of dolphins finds a school of potential prey they will vocalize more frequently. This increase in vocalizations attracts more dolphins to the area that can assist with rounding up the fish, allowing all individuals to get a larger meal. An increase in the number of dolphins nearby also provides safety for all individuals, as sharks and other large predators are likely to want to feed from the same food source the dolphins have discovered.
Dolphins are capable of imitating certain sounds very accurately and often learn other dolphins' whistles. One reason for imitating another dolphin's whistle may be to get its attention within a large group. Preliminary research seems to support this idea although details of the exact reason for imitation are still under investigation.
Dolphins may use other sounds besides whistles to communicate. Courtship behavior can yield pulsed yelps. When under duress, dolphins emit pulsed squeaks. Aggressive confrontation can produce buzzing click-trains.
To some extent, dolphins may also communicate by touch. Calves swim close to their mothers, brushing their bodies with their flanks and pectoral fins. This may serve to strengthen their bond and promote or strengthen social ties. On the other hand, dolphins use touch in rough, aggressive ways during courtship and when establishing dominance. They use their teeth to make parallel scratches, called rake marks, on each other's skin. Scientists continue to study these behaviors and the situations in which dolphins use them to learn exactly what they might mean. Below is a list of behaviors that we have observed our dolphins using here at Dolphin Research Center, possibly to communicate by touch.
For many years, researchers have looked for evidence of a dolphin language, a way to share complicated information such as stories, family histories, and philosophy in the way that humans do. Although a few dolphins have learned to use a simple artificial language consisting of hand gestures or computer-generated whistles, extensive research to date has failed to demonstrate a natural language in dolphins.
Herman, L., A.A. Pack, and P. Morrel-Samuels. 1993. Representational and Conceptual Skills of Dolphins. In Language and Communication: Comparative Perspectives, H.L. Roitblat, L.M. Herman, and P.E. Nachtigall (eds). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.
Herman, L.M., S.A. Kuczaj II, and M.D. Holder. 1993. Responses to Anamolous Gestural Sequences by a Language-Trained Dolphin: Evidence for Processing of Semantic Relations and Syntactic Information. Journal of Experimental Psychology 122(2): 184-194.
Use data graphics that clearly and obviously show a trend, relationship that maps to the chart that is design to show the particular insight. Your audience is looking for common or familiar patterns. For example, a picture of a dolphin in a rose is not what we expect to see.
When in certain rooms which contain pools of water, poison water, or lava, large blocks of visual noise appear all over the screen. The effect can obscure the screen, or cause framerate drops. Strangely, the effect seems to occur in the combat visor mode(and morph ball mode), but not the scan visor or thermal visor, even though the scan visor seems to render the world the same way the combat visor does.
The color of this visual noise seems to depend on the color of the liquid, with whitish or bluish for water and yellowish for poison water and lava. The problem doesn't seem to occur in all rooms which contain liquids, and it does not seem to be based on the quantity of liquids present in the room. Moving my character or turning my viewpoint causes the blocks to shift and jump around the screen.
In rooms where this effect does not occur, liquids still seem to contain some static, but not in a way that covers the screen or is disruptive. I've also found that jumping in and out of liquids such that a dripping fluid effect covers my visor causes framerate drops, and the effect seems full of static.
(I'm not sure how to describe moving though a 3d space using words, so i'll base this on this map: _map_tallon.jpg I believe that this is the first location that could be reached in the game where this problem was visible for me. The issue is more intense in some other areas, but they would be harder to get to.)
Here's a screenshot of what the issue looks like in the room "Root Tunnel" that i gave instructions on how to get to under "What steps will reproduce the problem?" You can see bars of whitish/bluish static on the lower part of the screen.
There's no much that can be done. Apple's drivers have been struggling since the Pixel Pipeline upgrades, and those are integral to accurately emulating the GameCube/Wii hardware. Old builds before the features won't show graphical issues, but as you noted, it's less accurate.
Detection of animals during visual surveys is rarely perfect or constant, and failure to account for imperfect detectability affects the accuracy of abundance estimates. Freshwater cetaceans are among the most threatened group of mammals, and visual surveys are a commonly employed method for estimating population size despite concerns over imperfect and unquantified detectability. We used a combined visual-acoustic survey to estimate detectability of Ganges River dolphins (Platanista gangetica gangetica) in four waterways of southern Bangladesh. The combined visual-acoustic survey resulted in consistently higher detectability than a single observer-team visual survey, thereby improving power to detect trends. Visual detectability was particularly low for dolphins close to meanders where these habitat features temporarily block the view of the preceding river surface. This systematic bias in detectability during visual-only surveys may lead researchers to underestimate the importance of heavily meandering river reaches. Although the benefits of acoustic surveys are increasingly recognised for marine cetaceans, they have not been widely used for monitoring abundance of freshwater cetaceans due to perceived costs and technical skill requirements. We show that acoustic surveys are in fact a relatively cost-effective approach for surveying freshwater cetaceans, once it is acknowledged that methods that do not account for imperfect detectability are of limited value for monitoring.
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